[gentoo-user] Re: Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Cowsill wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any way to

[gentoo-user] Re: mouse button mapping with evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valmor de Almeida wrote: This partially solved the problem. The optical mice were correctly configured but the quick pointing device on the laptop keyboard was not. That is the left/right buttons were not switched. HAL does list (below) the

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 11 May 2009 20:16:55 -0400 Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 01:28:17 Dan Cowsill wrote: Seeing the output isn't the problem, its just that the relevant error messages scroll away too quickly. Have you tried CTRL-S to pause the output and CTRL-Q to resume? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread bn
Hi, My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 01:28:17 Dan Cowsill wrote: Seeing the output isn't the problem, its just that the relevant error messages scroll away too quickly. Have you tried CTRL-S to pause the output and CTRL-Q to resume? Or maybe the scroll lock key? That

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 06:35, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: This works for me too but afterwards the key is completely ignored. What happens if you do this and then restart the shell? Or better yet, what happens if you logout completely and then log back in? For me, the RSA key is completely

[gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than unmerge all of KDE:3.5 and let revdep-rebuild find out.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 11:17, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Does ssh-agent really ask you for a passphrase when starting a shell? Not if you don't invoke it :) Sorry, that is a bit unclear. Ssh-agent will never ask for a password. It's ssh-add that does (if you run it after the agent), assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 22:18 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, [...] I would recommend you to try [I] net-misc/keychain Available versions: 2.6.6 2.6.8 Installed versions: 2.6.8(19:38:13 04/17/09) Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than unmerge all of KDE:3.5 and let

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/12/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, May 12, 2009 11:25, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-12 Thread Alexey Luchko
Nick Fortino wrote: Alexey Luchko wrote: I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by

[gentoo-user] Re: automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread James
Jerry McBride mcbrides9 at comcast.net writes: I keep a master copy of a generic gentoo install on a dvd. It's configured and compiled as x86, i686 for both the applications and kernel. I build all the kernel drivers I would ever need and update it as needed with each new round of

[gentoo-user] Re: strange net interfaces

2009-05-12 Thread james
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: The latter. Two tools that both do the same job. iproute combines ifconfig and route functionality into one tool; other than that having both is about as significant as having two browsers Thanks, James

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
A few weeks back the list gave me some advice on using Flash on KDE 3.5 under amd64 arch. I ended up with using gnash, which has a kpart, with konqueror routinely, and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 (64 bit) with firefox for when I wanted to see a movie. And all was well. :) Then, in my pride and

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello again list, After having tried every suggested method of scrolling or pausing kernel output and failing, I decided to mess about with the kernel config a little more and eventually came out ahead. I am happy to report no kernel panics and I thank everyone for their contribution. D

[gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?

[gentoo-user] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get additional warnings and no font change. Do I need

[gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview I get USE=examples mpi* python threads -doc -hdf5 (-qt4) Why

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:42 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview I get

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/12 Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org: On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 11:17, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Does ssh-agent really ask you for a passphrase when starting a shell? Not if you don't invoke it :) Sorry, that is a bit unclear. Ssh-agent will never ask for a password. It's ssh-add

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/12 Philipp Riegger li...@anderedomain.de: On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 22:18 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I would recommend you to try [I] net-misc/keychain     Available versions:  2.6.6 2.6.8     Installed versions:  2.6.8(19:38:13 04/17/09)     Homepage:            

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hi Daniel, [...] 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's going on? recompiled... and log show many things :-) some Xorg ones: (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 13:30, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's going on? recompiled... and

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: [...] Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it is normal? Definetly not normal. Xorg messages? or application ones? Have you run revdep-rebuild? What's your kernel and VIDEO_CARDS variable content?

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know about that. How can I revert that mask (in

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:08, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: [...] Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it is normal? Definetly not normal. Xorg messages? or application ones? All of them,

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: SNIP one question: is INPUT_DEVICES=evdev enough? or do I have to include keyboard and mouse? Thanks for your reply, Arnau I found that if I use *any* xorg.conf file then evdev seems to be enough for me. However if I

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does not work with the unmasked versions

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he will want to know what it breaks. ;-) Dale Even better is if he fixes it, reports the fix, supplies a

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he will want to know what it breaks. ;-) Dale Even better is if he fixes

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview does

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote: A few weeks back the list gave me some advice on using Flash on KDE 3.5 under amd64 arch. I ended up with using gnash, which has a kpart, with konqueror routinely, and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 (64 bit) with firefox for when I wanted to see a

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Arnau Bria schrieb: hive linux # make make modules_install make just one question about your compiling command, why make ... make? I just do make all make modules_install ... I used this command only to show the problem I have. I have a special setup, where I place nearly the complete

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: Hi, when I try to compile a kernel again (meaning after compiling it and building the modules), I get this error message: hive linux # make make modules_install make [...] INSTALL sound/core/snd-timer.ko INSTALL sound/core/snd.ko INSTALL

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a

[gentoo-user] Font problem

2009-05-12 Thread Christoph Schrauth
Hi all, I get the following error when starting Eterm: Eterm: Error: Unable to load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1. Falling back on k14 Eterm: FATAL: Couldn't load the fallback font either. Giving up. and the follwoing warning when starting xterm:

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote: Then, in my pride and arrogance, I decided to upgrade my desktop to use KDE 4.2.3. After two days of hacking away, I now have almost all the functionally I had with KDE 3.5.10 (two omissions

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:34:56 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: Xorg messages? or application ones? All of them, lol. :-) *I keep vesa cause I had many problems with intel driver... Hmm, me too. Ok, I upgraded my kernel (2.6.28-r5), rebuild xorg, and i've copied a xorg.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread James
I have looked at Metro (a catalyst tool of sorts) but I'm not certain I can take the customer configuration / rc files that I've whipped up and somehow use them during the automatic build process. If I could...man would that be lovely. -j On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1801 (95228-95277)

2009-05-12 Thread John Hennessy
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[gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eee

2009-05-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I'm trying to connect at the library to their wifi(Open network, no key required), but it's not working so I moved to one of their own machines to send this. Here's the steps I took: cat /proc/net/wireless gives me the interface wlan0 ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eee

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 ping somebody.com gets unknown host. You've not set the IP address, DNS addresses or routing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:20:10 -0700 James Ausmus wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots

[gentoo-user] nfs over (lvm over nbd) ?

2009-05-12 Thread Raph
Hello, I'm currently trying to setup a network with a storageless server. There are 20 computers (2x1.6 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB sata) and 1 more (outside the room) with the same hardware (so no real server). The whole is connected with 10/100 ethernet. Of course, and so sadly, there is not a penny...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1801 (95228-95277)

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
John Hennessy wrote: unsubscribe NO !!! You are chained to us and we will not let you go. Dale :-) :-) P. S. gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org should work. If not, look at the headers in the email or the mailing list pages on gentoo.org .

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mouse button mapping with evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ABCD wrote: names begin with two digits, so as to facilitate sorting. Also, it appears that you might not have restarted hal after adding the file - try /etc/init.d/hald restart, then restart X. Also, after doing so, if it doesn't work, reply with the full output of `lshal` (yes, I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009 21:33:23 +0200 Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 10:21:56 pm James wrote: Not a bad idea, Jerome. I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have to wait forever when updating all packages on your system? -j Hi James, Actally, I update the dvd pretty regularly. I'm a real bug about staying

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere